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Up against the noisy unions, it’s struggled to convey the safety of schools compared to other environments.
August’s debacle has won this category – although other U-turns are not much further behind.
Questions need to be set on every topic in each syllabus – with schools allowed to direct pupils to the parts of the paper they have covered.
Dr Meadows said that all sorts of trials had taken place. The point is: why not this one, which would have allowed problems to be identified in advance?
Starmer has been scathing about Williamson’s U-turn. But what right does he have to criticise?
Johnson will almost certainly decide to tough it out. But he will have a big problem if school returns prove tricky.
Ofqual came up with a technical solution to a complex problem, and yet it was not able to convince the rest of the education sector to back its judgement.
He has seen the SNP hold out for a week before swallowing teachers’ impossibly rosy predicted grades in full – and clearly thinks he can do better.
We have worked with Ofqual to put in place the best possible system.
It would require the willingness of exam boards to adjust their timetables. But with the will to achieve this, it could be done.
At the local level, there is also good news in the successful reform of Great Yarmouth Charter Academy.
The introduction of a classical liberal education system that has knowledge and rigour at its core means a better future for the next generation.
The mathematical sciences contribute over £200 billion to the UK economy. So we must do our utmost to foster talent in this field.